Secret Ingredient

Love

Gujarati: Prem: Hindi:
Prem:

I
have found that love is the ultimate spice of life. When used generously,
it enriches and enhances the flavor of life as well as food. Remember:
before entering into the kitchen check your state of mind and emotions.
Be in a centered, loving state when cooking. Cooking with love generates
a tremendous power transmuting food particles into health giving morsels.
Love stimulates the necessary enzymes in the body thus making one healthy,
happy and wholesome. Love has the power to change the flat and tasteless
food into palatable and tasteful fare.

Love
is also important while eating the food. Food eaten with love and
appreciation digests well and nourishes the whole body (body, mind and
spirit) We must show our family today the advantage of loving vibrations
for a brighter and lighter tomorrow.

Here is an example to illustrate how love and hated had ill effects on the
human condition:

In a
remote village of India there lives a father, mother and their two sons,
one of them being a stepson. The mother used to feed both of them lead (a
ball made of sesame seeds, coconut and jugglery) daily. After a year, her
own son gained weight and her stepson did not show any such improvement.
Both the children were served the same food. The baffled father asked the
doctor about this. The father was amazed to find put that her own son was
always served first,. With lat. of love, affection, care and warmth. But
when the stepson was served, she practically banged the plate of lade when
she placed it before him. She abused him, hated him for being alive and
cursed him. The father immediately realized that lack of love and
affection can hinder physical, mental and psychological growth. Hate is
like an acid,. Which corrodes the vessel; in which it is stored and the
vessel into which it is poured.

I
invite you to form your own opinion by experimenting with this secret
ingredient and subtle yet powerful principle in your own preparation and
presentation and observe the results.

Glossary of
Spices

Their
Description and Uses

Aniseed

Gujarati:
Sowa; Hindi: Valaiti Saunf

Description:
Aniseed is a herbaceous plant belonging to the Ajowan (Bishop�s weed)
family grown as a garden herb in India. It is greyish-brown in color
having an oval shape. It has a licorice-like smell and pleasant sweet
taste.

Uses: It is
used in cookery for flavoring confectionery goods, beverages and liquors.
It is good for digestion, for colds and used as diuretic stimulant and
carminative. Fresh leaves of the plant are used as garnishing and
flavoring for salads.

Asafoetida

Gujarati:
Hing; Hindi: Hing

Description:
Asafoetida is the dried gum oleoresin oozed of a Ferula plant species. It
is bitter and sharp in taste and gives out a strong pungent smell because
of the presence of sulphur compounds. It is sometimes called �Devil�s
Dung.�

Uses:
Asafoetida is used as flavoring for vegetables, curries, pickles, sauces,
pules and beans. Medicinally, it is used to correct gastric troubles
caused buy over-eating and indigestion. Sometimes it is applied
externally on the stomach to stimulate the intestines and relieve gastric
pains.